i love music. i always will. it saved my life, and i bet i'm not the only one who can say that.
what is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. at some point it became the business of selling cds in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. but that's not bad news for music, and it's certainly not bad news for musicians. indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists. (david byrne)
the key word around here is -free-. 'nothing is free' you’ll say and you are absolutely right. you will have to pay something more valuable than money, you will have to pay Attention. basically, creating a net label is a new form of qualifying the music. there are so much talented persons and creative musicians worldwide these days that the standard music industry can't handle all of them, so part of them always supposed to be initially freely released. it’s just an example of the new musical culture.
a free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. a free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don’t get paid. a culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. e can carry a free culture into the twenty-first century, without artists losing and without the potential of digital technology being destroyed. common sense must revolt. it must act to free culture. soon, if this potential is ever to be realized. (lawrence lessig)
